Tag: Saint Cecilia

Saint Cecilia (c.1900)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Saint Cecilia c.1900 Stained and painted glass, 213.5 x 75.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This window is the result of a collaboration between the Pre-Raphaelite painter Burne-Jones and the firm founded by William Morris, who initiated…

Santa Cecilia (1649)

Guercino (1591-1666) Santa Cecilia (Saint Cecilia) 1649 Oil on canvas, 121.6 x 100.4 cm Dulwich Picture Gallery, London Saint Cecilia was a third-century Roman martyr according to the Christian tradition. Cecilia undertook a religious vow to remain a virgin, promising…

Estasi di Santa Cecilia (c.1513)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Estasi di Santa Cecilia (Ecstasy of St. Cecilia) c.1513 Oil transferred from panel to canvas, 236 x 149 cm Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna Performed around 1513 for the chapel of Blessed Elena Duglioli, who had built her own image of…